# RHPS hardcore fans, is this true?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhps-hardcore-fans-is-this-true/30653
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 24, 2000, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhps-hardcore-fans-is-this-true/30653 "2000-08-24T23:15:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2000, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhps-hardcore-fans-is-this-true/30653/1 "2000-08-24T23:15:23Z")
I remember reading somewhere online that Trevor Horn from the Buggles (“Video Killed the Radio Star”) was the voice of Rocky in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Is this true?
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### Author:  [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2000, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhps-hardcore-fans-is-this-true/30653/2 "2000-08-24T23:37:15Z")
Not that I’ve ever heard. Rocky didn’t have a voice, he just grunted a lot. Peter Hinwood is the name of the actor who played Rocky.
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### Author:  [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2000, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhps-hardcore-fans-is-this-true/30653/3 "2000-08-24T23:44:20Z")
The answer is still “no.” Peter Hinwood did the singing for Rocky, too. And then he disappeared from the screen and became an art dealer (or a bookstore owner or something like that) in England.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhps-hardcore-fans-is-this-true/30653/4 "2000-08-24T23:56:05Z")
ChrisCTP, you’re talking about the movie. How about stage versions?
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### Author:  [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2000, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhps-hardcore-fans-is-this-true/30653/5 "2000-08-25T05:29:23Z")
Arnold:
Rocky Horror was played by Raynor Bourton (Original London Cast)and Kim Milford (Original Roxy Cast, New York Cast).
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2000, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhps-hardcore-fans-is-this-true/30653/6 "2000-08-25T07:24:40Z")
When you refer to the show as the _Rocky Horror **Picture** Show,_ then you are talking about the movie. The original stage production is known as the _Rocky Horror Show._
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### Author:  [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhps-hardcore-fans-is-this-true/30653/7 "2000-08-25T16:19:36Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by ChrisCTP \*
> \*\*The answer is still “no.” Peter Hinwood did the singing for Rocky, too. And then he disappeared from the screen and became an art dealer (or a bookstore owner or something like that) in England. \*\*
I’m pretty sure this isn’t true. Rochard O’Brien has said that Peter Hinwood couldn’t act or sing at all, so he cut out all of Rocky’s lines from the movie and got someone else to sing for him.
Since I’ve tried to connect a link here before and it never works, (if you’re really interested in this) go to [http://www.cosmosfactory.org](http://www.cosmosfactory.org) then click on rumors under RHPS. The second question is whether or not David Bowie sang for Rocky. That is said to be false, and it says that Trevor Horn sang for Rocky. That isn’t where I saw it originally. Is it the same Trevor Horn as the Buggles guy?
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2000, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhps-hardcore-fans-is-this-true/30653/8 "2000-08-25T18:06:45Z")
ChrisCTP, I yield to your RH expertise.
GuanoLad, point taken.
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### Author:  [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhps-hardcore-fans-is-this-true/30653/9 "2000-08-25T22:50:42Z")
TYG: Could you please point me toward wherever you read that bit from Richard O’Brien? I’ve never _ever_ heard anything about another person doing the singing or “speaking” for Rocky in place of Peter Hinwood. I could be wrong, (it certainly wouldn’t be the first time) but after ten years, this is the first I’ve heard about it.
Arnold: It ain’t expertise, sweetie…it’s simply that I still have a whole buncha RHPS stuff lying around from when I was tiny, cute, and Columbia. 🙂
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### Author:  [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2000, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhps-hardcore-fans-is-this-true/30653/10 "2000-08-26T02:04:56Z")
from [http://www.rockyhorror.com](http://www.rockyhorror.com) under bios
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### Author:  [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2000, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhps-hardcore-fans-is-this-true/30653/11 "2000-08-26T03:49:04Z")
Crrrrrazy. This is the first time I’ve heard anything like that. However, a Whois lookup reveals that [rockyhorror.com](http://rockyhorror.com) is owned by Lou Adler. That’s pretty final. 🙂
Well…my curiosity is piqued. I’ll see if I can find out anymore.
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### Author:  [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2000, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhps-hardcore-fans-is-this-true/30653/12 "2000-08-26T04:00:02Z")
I had heard that he had his voice dubbed, too. And as any RHPS fan knows, he sure as hell can’t dance. Watch him during the floorshow when they’re doing the Rocketts kicks.
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### Author:  [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2000, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhps-hardcore-fans-is-this-true/30653/13 "2000-08-26T04:15:49Z")
The first link you posted, TYG, says that Jim “Don’t Squeeze The” Sharman has confirmed it was Trevor Horn. If it’s about Rocky, and Jim Sharman says it, it’s believable.
However, I’ve just gone through about three million pages devoted to Trevor Horn and the Buggles, and not a single one of them mentions that he was the singing voice for Rocky Horror, so I’m going to assume for now that it isn’t the same guy.